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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
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He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them.
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Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration.
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
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O Time! consumer of all things O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.
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For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
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